Headlight-shield.



- with #00010 J. KOBS, JR. & M. STEWART 1 HEADLIGHT SHIELD.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 4- 1914.

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To all whom it may mm.- 1 Be it known that we, Join; KOBS, Jr., and 'MARVIN STEWART, citizens of the United States, and residents of Ashland, in the 1, county of Boyd. and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful-Improvements'in Headlight-Shields; and we do.

. hereby 'declarethe followin to be. a full,

- clear, and exact descriptiono the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to'provide simpleand highly eificient means for avoid- 15,ihg 'the"b lin ing efifeet of an automobile .headlight on a person or animal traveling .inthe opposite direction, it being our purpose to cut ofli only a ortion of the reflected light without rendering the latter entirely useless; and a "further object is to provide means which will notmaterially-interfere" with the appearance of the lamp.

In the accompanying drawing Figure '1 is I a front elevation showing the shield lowered. 26 Fig. 2 is a rear view showing the shield 36, .e'dges by a connecting wall 3. The central opening is about the same diameter as the f ront end of the search-light. I.

4 designates the shield which when in use-is designed to shade approximately the .40 upper half of'the-searchlight, leaving the lower half unobstructedgfand when not in use'is foldedout' of the 'way and concealed from view.- This shield islcomposed of a 'series of crescent-shaped fmembers .all or;

'which are pivoted at a common point 5 to the main casing. These members are formed on arcs whose centers are ofi-setrelatively to the centerof'thehousi-ng 1, and in order to insure complete folding "of the memf berswithin the wall'sof the housing th'ey are of different lengths and each is preferably composed of two sections pivot allyconnected together.. At their greatest width these sections do not exceed the width of the {5 space between the inner and outer rings 2 and 2 so .-'that when-the sh ield is not in use.

- Specification of Zetters Patent,

her, which is also the shortest, has a screw We claim as our inventioni Patented J 53126 1, 1915;

I Application filed. IJecemher 1915...v Serial No. 875,422."

I the crescent members wi-ll' be positioned in 5 rear of the-connecting Wall 3 and hence concealed from view.- At their free endsthe crescent-shaped members of the-shield are to formed with apertured flanges 6 "whichare designedrto ride out guide-rod 7 located within the housing The lowermost memextendi-ng therefrom through a slot in ring {it 1 and provided with a milled head nugfi by which the members maybe located a any desired point. Thislowermostfminbcr also hasyat or near "its center, a forwardly A projedzing lug 9 which upon successively en gaging the lower edges of the several shield? members'l'will raise the latter to position in rear. of the wall By means of the nut 8.; the shield members may be held. at any de-"f 5 sired point, the lug 9 of this member controllingrthe position to which any-cf thev "complementary members may move. Whilewe prefer to. provide means for-locating the shield members in the position desired, and

thereby serve to prevent rattling, yetjthese shield members .may.- be manipulated by means under the control of the foot'of the operator, but as such means is well known in" j the art further reference thereto -is,un-'" necessary. I In practice when the retaining nut is loosenedvthe shield members may be allowed" to unfold and occupy the position shown in r Fig. 1, thus cutting off the upper portioni-of '1 the light and preventing. it, from shin'ingj'in the eyes'of a; person or animal approaching the machine. The shield members'will automatically drop to the full limitof-their movement unless previously arrested. In 7 closing-they are one by one'moved by the engaging lug of the lowermost shield member. 1

. -l.-'A shade for automobile search lights 1 comprising a series of sections which are designed to fit one against another and all" pivoted at one end at a common point, and

means for raising and lowering said sections 'at their free ends.

2. A shade for automobile search-lights comprising a housing, a series of vertically.

movable sections located in said housing,

said sections being designed to fit one against. another and to move in planes paralleling one another and'the end of said housing alla 10 r comprising a housing, a series of vertica together;

of said members beingpivoted at one endfat s a common point, and a projection carried by one member-for.- causing all of them to move 4. A shade "for automobile search-lights comprising a series of crescent-shaped mombars which are all pivoted at one end at a common point,fmanipulating means at the 'ingvthje other members to cause all to move 0 together. v i I 5. The combination with a housing, of a 5 series znofgz c'rescent shaped members of differcnt lengths pivotedat one end atja. comv m'on point each member being composed of 1 pivotally-connected sections, and means f or d adjustingandholdingsaid members. Q,

scribing witnesses' free end of the lowermost member, and'a' Jug extending from said member for engagseries; of crescent-shapednmembers pivoted at one end 11: a common poi-nee guide-rod with which each of said members engages at its free end, looking means for-said members', and a lug carried by the lowerm'ost member for causing allsof them to move in ,umson. v

6. Thecombination with a housing, of'e In testimony whereof 'e have s gned this specification in thepresence of two Subfiij JQHN KOBS, JR.

.' Y MARVIN STEWART;

Witnessesrn S. A. Korma," DAR W. Lnwzs. 

